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Health Care Bill Amendment Highlights Direct-Care Workforce
Original Source Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute (PHI) and the Iowa Caregivers Association are Atlantic grantees. The 2008 Institute of Medicine report, Retooling for an Aging America: Building the Health Care Workforce was funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies. by Aaron Toleos An amendment to America’s Affordable Health Choices Act added in the House…
Author: PHI blog
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Federal ARRA Funds Keep Kids Learning and Adults Working During Summer
Original Source The National Center for Summer Learning at The Johns Hopkins University and The Building Educated Leaders for Life program (BELL) are Atlantic grantees. by Ron Fairchild For many disadvantaged children, summer is a time when school is forgotten and academic progress comes undone.…
Author: The Huffington Post
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Service Movement Creates Opportunities for After-School
The Youth Development Institute (through the Fund for the City of New York) is an Atlantic grantee. by Peter Kleinbard What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility: a recognition on the part of every American that we have duties to…
Author: Youth Today
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The disappearing philanthropists
Just when a culture of philanthropy takes hold in Ireland, the rich lose their money. Original Source By Conor O’Clery DUBLIN — Just off a two-lane country road south of Dublin, work has been going on for three years on a magnificent modern development set…
Author: GlobalPost
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'Safety first' for hi-tech funding
THE Liberal National Party is considering redirecting $120 million in Smart State funds away from risky start-ups to hi-technology companies struggling to remain viable, if it wins government. Opposition treasury spokesman Tim Nicholls told The Australian a defensive, risk-averse strategy was necessary as venture capital…
Author: The Australian
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Citing Cost, States Consider End to Death Penalty
by IAN URBINA ANNAPOLIS, Md. — When Gov. Martin O’Malley appeared before the Maryland Senate last week, he made an unconventional argument that is becoming increasingly popular in cash-strapped states: abolish the death penalty to cut costs. Mr. O’Malley, a Democrat and a Roman Catholic who has…
Author: The New York Times
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R30m boost for training community service nurses
Original Source by Sne Masuku Durban University of Technology has received a R30million grant that will pay for an undergraduate programme to train nurses. Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation active in South Africa, will spread the payment over five years, but the university has already received…
Author: The Sowetan
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DUT nurses' training programme set for 2009
by Latoya Newman The Durban University of Technology (DUT) has received a R30 million grant that it will channel into a new undergraduate nurses’ training programme. DUT said yesterday that the grant came from the Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation. The university had already received…
Author: The Natal Mercury
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R30m boost for training community service nurses
by Sne Masuku Durban University of Technology has received a R30million grant that will pay for an undergraduate programme to train nurses. Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation active in South Africa, will spread the payment over five years, but the university has already received the…
Author: Sowetan (South Africa)
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A Moment for Progressive Change in America: How Can We Make the Most of It?
Now that we know that Barack Obama will take the office of President of the United States on January 20, the scenario planning that virtually all non-profits and philanthropies have been doing can kick into high gear. My e-mail inbox, and no doubt yours, is…
Author: Gara LaMarche